Action Research and Community Engagement in Essex Local Delivery Pilot
Explore the Action Research conducted in Essex Local Delivery Pilot focusing on community engagement, assessing outcomes, processes, and scaling. Specific projects aim to improve physical and mental health, family activities, and community involvement. Recommendations include investing in people, building sustainable systems, embedding community insight, and developing monitoring frameworks.
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The Essex Local Delivery Pilot s Action Research: Share and learn Dr Valerie Gladwell, Dr Paul Freeman, and William Low essexldpevaluation@essex.ac.uk
April-June 2018 October 2018 June-May 2019 August 2019 Phase 2: 20 projects with increased PA (additional funding) Report Phase 1: success factors, challenges, recommendations Report Phase 2: outcomes, process and upscaling Phase 1: 24 projects explored and evaluated
Phase 1 Recommendations Undertake action research (test and learn) Invest in people and communities Build sustainable systems Embed community insight and engagement Develop a standard monitoring and evaluation framework From phase 1: a reminder
Aims of Phase 2 evaluation To evaluate: OUTCOMES both the specific agreed targets for each intervention and the wider outcomes of the Essex LDP. PROCESSES Involved in projects, and to identify factors that have enabled or hindered their work. SCALING UP the potential to be sustained, scaled up, and replicated
Specific projects/services Community Project Location Action Research Work New physical activities targeted at inactive girls and women from low-socio economic areas New walk and talk activities for families and volunteer home visitors New project for men suffering depression and mental ill-health Health Outreach Basildon Home-Start Essex Basildon Motivated Minds Basildon To offer a Dementia friendly activity programme Sport for Confidence Basildon Primary school children visit older person day centre The George Hurd Day Centre Basildon
Specific projects/services Community Project Location Action Research Work Catch 22 Crisis Housing Colchester New family activities New co-designed activities -guided walks and yoga. Community 360 Colchester New part-time coordinator Futures in Mind Colchester Gardening clubs and activities to engage schools and community. Together We Grow Colchester
Specific projects/services Community Project Location Action Research Work New wildlife garden and garden group volunteers Dig 4 Jaywick Tendring Healthier Independence Longer Lives (HILL) New physical activities for existing and new users Tendring Test increased social movement work and social marketing New programme of physical activities for young people and their families Let's Keep Moving Tendring Teen Talk Harwich Tendring
Specific projects/services Community Project Location Action Research Work Achievement Through Football Extend services to engage families Southend New 1:1 motivational trainers and new marketing Active Living Epping Forest New focus on audience of young people with mental ill-health and their families Test increased social movement work and social marketing Fitness In Mind Brentwood Let's Keep Moving Canvey Island Achievement Through Football Extend services to engage families Southend
Outcomes: DCMS Physical wellbeing Mental wellbeing Individual development Social and community development
Process and success factors Community insight and engagement Systems thinking Content and delivery Academic insight Partnerships Leadership Capacity building Fit with context Resources and sustainability
What about Scaling up? The majority of interventions expressed an interest in scaling up increasing number of participants in current work and/or replication -intervention in another location and/or to a new audience) But do projects currently have capability?
Scale up: Key aspects to consider Fit the needs of the target of audience and local context(s) Co-design Adopt a systems thinking approach Multi-level collaboration Use of insight and contemporary academic evidence/theory Proof of concept (you know why it works!)
Scaling up: (Reis et al., 2016) Does intervention reach target population (v others)? Reach Effectiveness Does intervention physical activity? % and representativeness of organisations that will adopt program Adoption Quality and consistency of delivery across settings Implementation Maintenance Are activities maintained longer-term.
Recommendations for LDP 1: Integrate community and academic insight Integrate insight in design and implementation 2: Systems thinking and partnership working Ensure an appropriate and sustainable system to support PA behaviour Interventions stronger supported by the system and not restrained 3: Build capacity to scale/replicate Invest time and resources in workforce, interventions, communities, systems maximise the reach, impact and sustainability of existing PA interventions. 4: Capture high quality evidence A systematic and robust evaluation -high quality evidence of the effectiveness Help learn what works, for whom, and in what circumstances
Summary: top tips Academic insight: theory Systems thinking Content and delivery Community insight and engagement Leadership Partnerships Resources and sustainability Fit with context Capacity building Monitoring and evaluation
